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"You may redeem miles for travel in United Global FirstSM, United First®, United Business® or United BusinessFirst® , even if the space is not available. In these cases, United Economy in the same award type must be confirmed, and the front cabin will be waitlisted. For example, a Saver United First award must be confirmed in Saver United Economy to be eligible for waitlisting. If the courtesy waitlist does not clear, it will expire 24 hours before itinerary departure, and you will automatically be added to the airport upgrade standby list upon check-in. In these cases, you will be confirmed on a space-available basis by a United airport representative at the gate once the flight has closed for check-in. For United BusinessFirst and United Business travel awards, the difference in miles will be refunded when the United BusinessFirst or United Business class segment of the trip could not be confirmed. Waitlist requests may only be made over the phone with your local United Reservations office"


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Author Topic: Plan B Discussion: Booking BusinessFirst Awards Without Availability  (Read 507619 times)

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Re: Plan B Discussion: Booking BusinessFirst Awards Without Availability
« Reply #1100 on: January 26, 2015, 01:22:25 PM »
2 separate itineraries or when you look at seats it shows your 2 flights?
how many tickets did you book?
I booked one ticket.
Fare Class: United Economy (XN) - (IN class requested)

2 times so far it showed me a duplicate of the same itinerary when I click view ticket.
the first ticket is XN the second is IN.
Then several hours later it goes back to normal.

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Re: Plan B Discussion: Booking BusinessFirst Awards Without Availability
« Reply #1101 on: January 26, 2015, 03:24:30 PM »
I made a Plan B ticket and it looked regular with the IN request.
Now when I log in it shows me 2 exact itineraries 1. in XN   2. in IN
What does that mean?
I would guess that IN cleared and they just didn't remove the XN segment yet. Can you post a screenshot?
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Re: Plan B Discussion: Booking BusinessFirst Awards Without Availability
« Reply #1102 on: January 26, 2015, 03:32:55 PM »
I've seen this before.
IIRC, it means you've cleared.

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Re: Plan B Discussion: Booking BusinessFirst Awards Without Availability
« Reply #1103 on: January 26, 2015, 05:01:44 PM »
I've seen this before.
IIRC, it means you've cleared.

Damn it.
I missed it twice. :'(

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Re: Plan B Discussion: Booking BusinessFirst Awards Without Availability
« Reply #1104 on: January 26, 2015, 05:08:27 PM »
You can say what you think when you think what you say.

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Re: Plan B Discussion: Booking BusinessFirst Awards Without Availability
« Reply #1105 on: January 26, 2015, 05:28:06 PM »
huh?

Dan once wrote that not always does it clear automatically, rather sometimes you must call in.
2 times in the past few weeks it appeared as a duplicate booking just one in IN and one XN.

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Re: Plan B Discussion: Booking BusinessFirst Awards Without Availability
« Reply #1106 on: January 26, 2015, 05:37:08 PM »
Dan once wrote that not always does it clear automatically, rather sometimes you must call in.
2 times in the past few weeks it appeared as a duplicate booking just one in IN and one XN.
So whats the problem? Just call up UA and have them remove the XN segment and you're good to go..
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Re: Plan B Discussion: Booking BusinessFirst Awards Without Availability
« Reply #1107 on: January 26, 2015, 05:39:02 PM »
So whats the problem? Just call up UA and have them remove the XN segment and you're good to go..

Just called them they said my wait list hasn't cleared.

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Re: Plan B Discussion: Booking BusinessFirst Awards Without Availability
« Reply #1108 on: January 26, 2015, 08:13:28 PM »
Just called them they said my wait list hasn't cleared.
did you ask them why it is duplicated?

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Re: Plan B Discussion: Booking BusinessFirst Awards Without Availability
« Reply #1109 on: February 01, 2015, 07:52:46 PM »
My outbound Plan B  flight got canceled due to the weather last week. I was rebooked on LH in confirmed business. I did not clear automatically on my return TLV-EWR and the booking class did not change to R. I'm in TLV now, none of the agents seem to know what I'm talking about. When I referenced the "gg onestandby"  one agent even said "If you know the system so well you also know that it doesn't work." There are currently 8 empty seats in J, one person on the upgrade standby list and I don't see my name on the list. Does the airport have a different upgrade list? Anyone had success in TLV that can give me some tips please?

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Re: Plan B Discussion: Booking BusinessFirst Awards Without Availability
« Reply #1110 on: February 01, 2015, 08:01:28 PM »
AFAIK there was no positive reports from TLV. When is your flight?
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Re: Plan B Discussion: Booking BusinessFirst Awards Without Availability
« Reply #1111 on: February 01, 2015, 08:01:56 PM »
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Re: Plan B Discussion: Booking BusinessFirst Awards Without Availability
« Reply #1112 on: February 01, 2015, 08:03:36 PM »
11:25 AM that's 4 AM EST

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Re: Plan B Discussion: Booking BusinessFirst Awards Without Availability
« Reply #1113 on: February 01, 2015, 08:03:59 PM »
AFAIK there was no positive reports from TLV. When is your flight?
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Huh?
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Re: Plan B Discussion: Booking BusinessFirst Awards Without Availability
« Reply #1114 on: February 01, 2015, 08:04:46 PM »
11:25 AM that's 4 AM EST
And you're in the airport now...? If yes, just make sure to get the PR-1 status....

Also, have you checked-in?
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Re: Plan B Discussion: Booking BusinessFirst Awards Without Availability
« Reply #1115 on: February 01, 2015, 08:15:04 PM »
And you're in the airport now...? If yes, just make sure to get the PR-1 status....

Also, have you checked-in?

I checked in and left the airport already as I tried every United  agent already. Maybe I'll have some more luck in the morning. Whom can I tell them to call to verify as there is no rewards desk or club as in EWR. Can the reps at the callback number still help me?

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Re: Plan B Discussion: Booking BusinessFirst Awards Without Availability
« Reply #1116 on: February 01, 2015, 08:18:12 PM »
Def try in the morning as well. Be early. Try to look for nice helpful agent....
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Re: Plan B Discussion: Booking BusinessFirst Awards Without Availability
« Reply #1117 on: February 01, 2015, 10:44:25 PM »
It is now 6 hours before the flight. I just got a new itinerary from United with a business class seat assigned. Yay!

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Re: Plan B Discussion: Booking BusinessFirst Awards Without Availability
« Reply #1118 on: February 01, 2015, 10:44:49 PM »
It is now 6 hours before the flight. I just got a new itinerary from United with a business class seat assigned. Yay!
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Re: Plan B Discussion: Booking BusinessFirst Awards Without Availability
« Reply #1119 on: February 01, 2015, 10:54:42 PM »
Just so people here can know what is going on.... I was in a helpful mood and I saw how badly besimchehtamid wants his business class. So I PMd him that he should send me his PNR and last name. I have access to the UA GS desk, (i know someone who has GS status and I call in on his behalf) I called them up and the first rep after 15 minutes claimed that she can not help me because its an award ticket and that the pax on the ressy is not a GS member. HUCA came to mind.... And I called again, got a nice rep who didn't even bother to understand the whole plan B Pshetel, she just put me on hold, she came back after 5 minutes to apologize for the long hold... and that she confirmed the pax in business class. She just put in IN class in the ressy which is full mileage class and reissued the ticket!

No this is NOT going to work for the rest of us and its not even worth trying to call up UA to do that. (unless you have GS access)

Just wanted to share nice success story.
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